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Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 Certification Guide

By : Glen D. Singh
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Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 Certification Guide

By: Glen D. Singh

Overview of this book

Achieving the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 certification helps you to kickstart your career in cybersecurity operations. This book offers up-to-date coverage of 200-201 exam resources to fully equip you to pass on your first attempt. The book covers the essentials of network security concepts and shows you how to perform security threat monitoring. You'll begin by gaining an in-depth understanding of cryptography and exploring the methodology for performing both host and network-based intrusion analysis. Next, you'll learn about the importance of implementing security management and incident response strategies in an enterprise organization. As you advance, you'll see why implementing defenses is necessary by taking an in-depth approach, and then perform security monitoring and packet analysis on a network. You'll also discover the need for computer forensics and get to grips with the components used to identify network intrusions. Finally, the book will not only help you to learn the theory but also enable you to gain much-needed practical experience for the cybersecurity industry. By the end of this Cisco cybersecurity book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 certification exam, and have a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Network and Security Concepts
5
Section 2: Principles of Security Monitoring
9
Section 3: Host and Network-Based Analysis
14
Section 4: Security Policies and Procedures
21
Chapter 17: Mock Exam 1
22
Chapter 18: Mock Exam 2

Discovering the role and operations of network devices

As a soon-to-be cybersecurity professional, it's important to understand the role and operations of network devices. Such information is essential to better understand how hackers are able to compromise a network and the devices on it. Furthermore, hackers are able to take advantage of vulnerabilities found within many network protocols and use our network devices to assist with their malicious intentions.

In this section, you will learn about various networking devices that are commonly implemented within an enterprise and learn how they make their decisions on forwarding messages between a source and destination.

Hubs

Hubs are very old network devices that were used to interconnect end devices, but they are no longer used on modern networks. A hub allows end devices to interconnect and exchange messages between a source and destination. However, a hub does not operate or function like network switches.

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